Reflect on the qualities of your portfolio as a whole. What connections can you make between the work you have done for this portfolio and the work you will do in future classes? How might this work apply to other areas of your life beyond the English classroom? Explain your answers and support them with evidence using your portfolio as your text.

Revisit Wiesenfeld’s position on earning grades in his article “Making the Grade.” Consider your opinion of Wiesenfeld’s claim that you supported at the beginning of the semester. Justify how your portfolio deserves the grade you earned (or an alternate grade). Make a claim about the grade you earned and support it with evidence using your portfolio as your text.

Extra credit for the portfolio must be typed, MLA formatted, and due no later than start of class on Friday, May 20, 2016.

Planning Your Week T 5/24--Final Exam prep due (twenty questions, guide sheet with quotes/notes, and a paragraph answer to one of your twenty questions)​Monday, May 16

Examine Part 2 of the film The Odyssey (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1997).

Complete the analysis work for the film.

Tuesday, May 17

Continue examining Part 2 of the film The Odyssey (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1997).

Complete the analysis work for the film.

Wednesday, May 18

Read “The Challenge” pp. 1103-1105.

Read “Odysseus’ Revenge” pp. 1107-1111.

Read “Penelope’s Test” pp.1111-1114.

View the remainder of the film The Odyssey and compare to the epic.

Thursday, May 19

Generate theme statements and review plot events from The Tempest, The Night Circus, The Road, & The Odyssey.

Develop your twenty questions for the final exam.

Friday, May 20

Read poem “Penelope to Ulysses” by Meredith Schwartz.

Read poems “Penelope” by Dorothy Parker and “Odysseus” by Merwin. Compare the two characters and the author’s tone toward the situation in each.

Monday, May 23

Read the poem “Ithaka” by Constantine Cavafy.

Read “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Construct a poem to compliment your Where I’m From. This time it should be a retrospective like Ithaka or Ulysses.